Services

YAROS | Peer Support | Illicit Drug Strategy

The target group for this program is young men and women aged 12 to 25 years who may be identified through risk factors such as:

• Homelessness/or risk of being homeless or transient
• Weak connections with families and community supports
• Illicit drug use
• Engaging in survival sex
• Victimisation by offenders/perpetrators
• Offending

A significant proportion of this target group are at risk of being sexually exploited in exchange for shelter, food, transport, money, or illicit substances, and are at risk of coming in contact with, and perhaps entering the formal sex industry.

Objectives of YAROS:

• To provide support to young people, and significant persons in their lives (including parents or partners where appropriate), to aid them to make positive lifestyle decisions.
• To enhance young peoples awareness of situations of personal risk and to assist them to develop strategies to increase their safety.
• To strengthen young peoples options by providing relevant information, and referrals to appropriate agencies which can deliver support services including: housing, income support, health, legal advice, education, training, and employment, and where necessary, advocating for the provision of these services.
• To establish and maintain community networks and co-ordination mechanisms (including the development of protocols) between non-government and government organisations that have contact with the target group.

Outreach - Peer Support

• Create Calmness, Respect, and Consideration by ACTIVE ROLE MODELLING.
• Awareness.
• Peer Support.
• Develop Trust.
• Consider options/alternatives/immediate needs.
• Listen and reflect issues.
• Maintain SAFE/CALM environment- (Drop In).
• Refer to other staff as necessary -sport recreation- Youth worker.
• Specialist-ADTW.

The YETI Adolescent Drug Treatment Program is the only drug and alcohol program for youth in the Cairns Region. This program provides appropriate and effective treatment interventions for young people between the age of 12 - 25 who are 'at risk' of or engaging in the use of illicit drugs. Primarily these people are wishing to reduce, cease or become safer within that use. The interventions are provided within a holistic, empowerment and strength based model of care.

This program is flexible, innovative and youth orientated and continually aims to meet the needs of the individual, group and/or community. This program takes on primarily the role of prevention, cessation, intervention and harm minimisation through effective information giving and interventions.

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